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How SiteCandor Works, Answered
Guides to every part of the product — setting it up, reading what comes back, and the money. Written for somebody who runs a business rather than a website.
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Getting Started
What happens after you subscribe, in order — and the two things that wait on you.
What Happens After You Subscribe
The first day in order — what runs on its own, what waits on you, and when the first numbers appear.
Setting Up
Every form in your dashboard, and what to put in it.
Choosing the Keywords We Track
Which phrases to give us, how many you get, and why the place you search from changes every number.
Writing the Questions We Ask AI Assistants
How to write the questions we put to assistants for you, how many you get, and where our suggestions come from.
Choosing Your Canary Pages
Which of your pages the daily check looks at, why your homepage is already included, and what we look for on each.
Everything on the Settings Screen
Which emails we send, who else is copied, your time zone, your data, your site nickname, and where alerts go.
Reading Your Dashboard
What each screen is telling you, and what it can't.
Reading Your Audit
What your audit score means, why the fixes are listed in that order, and what each part of the report is for.
Reading Your Rankings
Where you come up in Google each night, what the colours and symbols in the table mean, and which changes are worth acting on.
Comparing Pages With Your Competitors
How to compare your page with the top Google results for a keyword you track, and what the comparison can and can't tell you.
Reading Your AI Visibility
How often AI assistants name your business, what the question-by-question table shows, and what one week can honestly tell you.
Understanding Your Alerts
What the daily check of your pages looks for, why no email means nothing broke, and what each status on the Alerts screen means.
Looking up What People Search For
How to check how often a phrase gets searched, how many lookups you get each month, and why the country setting matters.
Billing and Your Account
Plans, pausing, signing in, and the emails we send.
Billing, Pausing and Cancelling
What each plan costs, and what pausing or cancelling actually does.
Signing in Without a Password
How the emailed sign-in links work, how long each kind lasts, and what to do when one stops working.
The Emails We Send, and How to Stop Them
Which emails are optional, how to switch off the Pro emails you don't want, and which ones always arrive.
The Free Website Audit
The check anybody can run on their own site, before there is an account.
The Free Website Audit
What the free audit reads, what comes back, and how often you can run one.